Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
...aphing calculator that help find the slope of a line or create a fun adventure game. You can start programming your current graphing calculator now without any special equipment by visiting education.ti.com/ticodes . TI provides free lessons that go over programming on the calculator. With TI-Ba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
...math classes, especially when I was a sophomore. I had an excellent teacher who just made learning easier. Since I was comfortable and good at math I thought, ‘I could share this ease-of-learning with others.’ Of course, I changed my mind about six or seven times, but then, I came back to being a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
... Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation IB is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
...g true to their individual subjects and standards. "The current educational landscape brings great opportunities and great challenges which require thoughtful leadership and planning." Peter McLaren, Executive Director of Next Gen Education “A project of this nature has never been done before...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
...as in the sixth grade. I had to choose a new profession. Math and chemistry always excited me. I was the student not allowed in the chemistry lab without oversight, meaning the teachers thought I had to be watched. They were right! In ninth grade, a very special algebra teacher said I should be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Jessica Kohout
...ature. That’s ultimately why I decided to become a classroom teacher, so I could be surrounded by that same feeling every day. "When you get to see those “Aha!” moments come to life for your students, it makes it all worthwhile." Jessica Kohout, TI Teacher of the Month What advice would you g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/teacher-of-the-month
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...llege Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Karlheinz Haas (@karl0294) teaches AP® Physics, AP® Statistics and a STEM Lab class at The Pine School in Hobe Sound, Florida. Before coming ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...of yourself so you can tackle the rest of the year. Remember each year is different and this is the year that will be the best one yet! About The Author: Jessica Kohout has taught all levels of biology, from on grade level to AP®, at Reservoir High School in Howard County, MD. She became a T3™ ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...scattered, but writing everything down will totally help you realize that: a) there probably aren’t as many things stressing you out as you initially thought, and b) that some of the things on your list aren’t that big of a deal after all. Anxiety Tip #2: Take a Brain Vacay Getting worked up over...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...ify functionality, such as: “Does the calculator return 4 for 2+2?” These tests are important because they can be rerun every time the code changes without needing a person to complete this tedious and repetitive task. I would not be in this job without a lot of fabulous women before me who pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
..., which does not endorse TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.act.org. Microsoft is a registered trademark of its owner. About the author: Ada Woo, Ph.D., Senior Director of Strategy Implementation & Operations for ACTNext™, serves as chief of staff for the R&D and innovation uni...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...traw2020. In addition, you can watch a webinar that takes you through the activity using Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculators. About the author: Tom Reardon has taught mathematics in Ohio at Fitch High School for 35 years and part time at Youngstown State University for 39 years. As a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...comment struck a chord: “You don’t seem nearly as mean in person as you do online.” Snow realized that by just focusing on teaching the curriculum, without paying attention to his tone, he was not coming across in an approachable manner. Since then, he has made an effort to infuse humor into his ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
...t a certificate of completion. This may be accepted at your school or district for continuing education credit. Introducing the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator Presented by Becky Byer and John Hanna Spend an hour getting acquainted with writing, running and editing Python progra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
... concept, you don’t even have to see the graph to know the answer. No calculations are necessary. Of course, I would be pretty happy if a student thought to use the value of the discriminant in order to find which values for b would yield no solutions for the quadratic. I’m convinced too many...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
... the small circle show a time of .293 s, which corresponds to the first entry in cell B2 in the Lists & Spreadsheet (L&S) page (Figure 6). Record all those times, for as many bounces as possible, in the second column. Using these entries allows us to compute the difference in time between bounces...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Tim Collier
...ride that line. Sure, sometimes it’s important for students to sit down and memorize multiplication tables. However, in my opinion, the best days are those where you can execute a rich math task that allows students to have a good time. It’s that connection between the student, the teacher and th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/february/teacherofthemonth
Graphing Calculators Are Now Approved for the AP® Biology Exam, but What Else Can I Do With Them?
...Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Erick Archer is the market strategy manager for science and stem education at Texas Instruments. Now that graphing calculators are permitted...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/april/graphingcalculatorsapproved
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Stacy Thibodeaux
...In college, I was a pre-med major who wanted to be a doctor. My anatomy and physiology teacher suggested that I help tutor and eventually told me she thought I should be a teacher. At the time, I didn’t think I wanted to. But, when recruiters came to the university looking to fill a teaching posi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/april/teacherofthemonth
Building a Band With Famous Mathematicians
...n the Euclidean Fibonacci Pythagorean Sword-Play Band (or EFPSPB for short) … Pythagorean ratios not only define the 13 notes of the chromatic scale, those same intervals define the placement of the frets (the small bars of metal across the fingerboard) on a guitar. “So I imagine it as Pythagoras...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/june/music-in-math
Mission Celebration: Use Math to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
...rs, using their TI-NspireTM CX graphing calculators. In the lunar lander challenge, students attempt to guide the Eagle module to Tranquility Base without running out of fuel. In the first activity, Fuel for the Fire, students connect math and science, build reasoning and problem-solving skill...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/july/missioncelebration
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...rrow and exciting careers in the future. Today, that means helping teachers find ways to make math and science relatable and inspiring to students. Without this, we will remain in a STEM crisis. Congratulating Connie Schrock, outgoing president of NCSM, on her bold leadership in math education d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Lisa Goddard
... around on the screen with ease. Everything about the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator has been phenomenal. I honestly can’t imagine ever teaching without it. How do you help your students learn difficult concepts? I always teach my students that there’s more than one way to do a math problem....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/march/teacherofthemonth
Solution 13980: OS Restore in TI Connect™ for Macintosh® not Detecting Calculators Without the Operating System.
...ectivity cable? Follow the below steps to get the device recognized by TI OS Restore: • Unplug the TI Connectivity Cable from the device and from the computer• Turn off then turn on the calculator• Plug the cable into the calculator• Plug the cable into the computer• Wait about 20 seconds to see ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/troubleshooting-messages-unexpected-results/13980
Solution 24631: The Computer Algebra System (CAS) and Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators.
... software that allows the manipulation of mathematical expressions in symbolic form. The principal difference between a calculator with CAS and one without CAS is the ability to deal with equations symbolically rather than numerically. Texas Instruments products that have the Computer Algebra Sy...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/general-information/24631